Montreal – Canadian Teen Victoria mboco A dream run for the National Bank Open title on Thursday night, which made a slow start to defeat the Japanese star Naomi Osaka 2-6, 6-4, 6-1.
18 -year -old MBoko, who will jump from 85 to 25th position in the world, won his first WTA tour title and joined the Fay Urban in 1969 and Bianka Andresku As the only Canadian to win a home event in the open era in 2019.
Osaka dropped Meboko on his knees after bursting in cheers around the center court as a hoax pack house. The winner then ran to embrace his family and coaches in the courtside box.
“When I had that winning moment and looking at so many people, standing for me and cheering for me, this was a real experience,” said Maboko, who was born in Charlotte in Northern Carolina, grew up for the mother -father and to Toronto. “I would never have thought that something like this would have come suddenly. It just proves that your dreams are close to them [seem],
The crowd was so unruly, the umpire repeatedly asked the fans that “please be silent during the points.”
“It has been an incredible week here in Montreal,” MBoko said to the crowd, “I love you!” in French.
After the match, when the mob appreciated Osaka, he shouted something and said, “Thank you, I think,” and did not congratulate MBCO. Osaka later refused to talk to the media.
There were 13 service brakes in 25 matches, with MBoko converted eight to eight out of nine break points. And he did it with a rigid and swollen wrist that was “difficult to move.”
After falling hard in the third set in the semi-finals on Wednesday, MBoko woke up on Thursday morning and rushed to the hospital for X-rays and an MRI, but eventually received a green light to play.
“Today was really an incident,” Maboko said, which often shook his wrist into visible inconvenience. “It seems incredible right now. I mean, the words cannot actually describe how it has gone today.
“There are some moments where it was increasing me a lot, but I think it was final. I just kept telling myself,” You have another to go to you. “
With his wrist wrapped in a bandage, Mboko stacked 13 double-faults, and drowned his first service pace.
He defeated four prominent champions at the hard-court event, was procuring top Coco goff 6-1, 6-4 and Osaka Topping too, Sophia Kenin And Elena Ribbikina,
Osaka, a four -time Grand Slam champion who arrived at the world number 1 in the world, performed his best in the WTA 1000 tournament since reached the Miami final in 2022. She lasted 15 months at the end of that season and was of daughter Shai in July 2023. She was the winner since the 2021 Australian Open.
MBoko WTA is the third wild card to win 1000 title event, the following Maria Sharapova In 2011 in Cincinnati and in 2019, Andresku in Indian Wales. He is also the second lowest rank player to win the WTA 1000 or Tier -1 title since he started the Tier -1 category in 1990.
Associated Press and ESPN Research contributed to this report.
